Public commemoration and women’s history

How are women remembered, commemorated and celebrated in public? How is this different from historical commemorations of men? What forms do these commemorations take? Why do public commemorations of women provoke such debate, and what are the legacies of these public memorials in their different forms?

Dr Rebekah Higgitt, University of Kent and member of the English Heritage Blue Plaques Panel

Sarah Jackson, founder of the East End Women’s Museum

Professor Rebecca Surender, Oxford University, Pro-Vice Chancellor for Diversity, and head of Oxford’s ‘Diversifying Portraiture’Part of the IHR’s ‘Suffrage Series, 1918-2018’, a programme of talks, debates, lectures, walks and concerts marking the centenary and legacies of the Representation of the People Act, 1918.